by Jesse Goldstein, City University of New York This past week, the OWS Screenprinters Cooperative had a table set up at Hunter College’s Women’s Day Fair, screenprinting and selling tee-shirts,...
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OWS Screenprinting: Markets, Commons, and Questions, Part I
Kony 2012: “The rules have changed”
by David Meek, University of Georgia On 5 March 2012, the controversial NGO Invisible Children released the latest in their series of mini-documentaries about the plight of child soldiers in Uganda....
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Can we get there from here? Teleological red-lining and avoiding the ghetto
by Jim Thatcher, Clark University If nothing else, the past year removed any doubt as to mobile technology’s role as a potent force for social change. From the streets of Cairo to Zuccotti Park,...
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‘Anonymous’ and the question of authenticity
by David Meek, University of Georgia In this post I’d like to explore another case of online activism and several of the questions it brings up about what constitutes ‘authentic’ political...
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“Labor law is a shield, but direct action is a sword…”
by Nathan Clough, University of Minnesota Duluth So said an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer in response to a question I asked about the solidarity unionism model employed by the...
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Occupy Wall Street and 'Israelification'
by Kareem Rabie, City University of New York For my final post in this batch on Occupy Wall Street and Palestine, I’m going to draw heavily on an exchange I had recently with my friends Jimmy...
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The message
by Christian Anderson, City University of New York Not too long ago, a forwarded message arrived in my inbox. Simply titled ‘2012’, it was addressed to dozens of other people, and I could see...
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Cash crops in the wildlands: Different worlds are at stake
by Naomi Millner, University of Bristol “No-one is forced . This is an absolute lie. The people around Gambella are inhabiting the place in a very scattered manner” Ethiopian government (quoted...
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Return of the living debt
by Sara Nelson, University of Minnesota In the turbulent aftermath of the financial crisis, one recent development is particularly startling: the resurrection, without warning and from an unknown...
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Occupy Wall Street and ‘Occupation’
by Kareem Rabie, City University of New York One of the first critiques of OWS from the left has come from Indigenous activists, Palestine solidarity workers, and others questioning the use of the...
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